Fourth District Councilman Patrick O’Donnell is still waiting for that Bohemian Club membership …
In an exercise that happens once a year for about three weeks, a tiny little Sonoma County burg gets overrun by bank execs, politicians, industry tycoons, even presidents of the United States (especially if they’re Republicans).
You can’t read about it on [...]

Must be time for a new budget: in a move that you don’t see very often, Long Beach City Council will meet in closed session today at 4:30 p.m. to discuss employee wage freezes as a way through the looming budget deficit, and the Los Cerritos Wetlands land swap.
Participating via teleconference (which sounds so … [...]

THURS. NOV. 22: MMM, JUDI DENCH
Tues | Nov 20 Federal agents raid a medicinal marijuana facility on Fourth Street and get a bunch of cannabis and the comforting feeling that they are torturing the sick and dying—E Pluribus Unum, boys! The facility, which had the head shop-sounding name “Compassionate Caregivers,” is one of the facilities [...]

Letting loose with nukes
When Dick Cheney assured the pubic in 2002 that it was “a bit over the top” to suggest that the Bush administration was considering “preemptive nuclear strikes” as part of its overall defense strategy, it seemed a safe bet that he was being “a bit less than honest”. It was, and he [...]

Valerie Plame warms up at the Carpenter Center

It’s funny: four years after Valerie Plame was outed by Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and Dick Armitage as a covert operative of the CIA working in nuclear counter-proliferation, I forget there are people who haven’t quite heard of the affair.
“Valerie Plame . . .” friends would [...]